Bobo Mississippi Map

About Bobo, Mississippi

Bobo is a locality in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 118. The population density is 23.8 people per km². Bobo is located at 34.1336°N, 90.6776°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 38646, 38614.

Bobo exists as a quiet punctuation mark upon the expansive, flat geometry of the Mississippi Delta, where the horizon stretches thin and taut under a sky that feels remarkably heavy with light. It lies 23.3 miles east-northeast of Clarksdale, MS (from Clarksdale, MS: bearing 75°T), and is situated 13.4 miles west of Batesville. The land around Bobo remains defined by its absolute surrender to the horizontal, a vast alluvial plain where the earth turns a deep, bruised shade of brown after the rains. Two miles away, the Old Little Tallahatchie River traces a slow, deliberate path through the silt, while the damp, verdant expanse of the Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and scrub just four miles from the center. Beyond these lowlands, the silhouette of Oak Ridge occasionally haunts the western horizon, a distant and hazy reminder of elevations that contrast sharply with the unrelenting levelness of the local terrain.

Agriculture serves as the pulse of Bobo, dictating the tempo of the seasons through the planting of cotton and the long, shimmering heat of the harvest. The history of the locality is etched into the very soil, a narrative of labor and persistence that lingers in the weathered wood of old barns and the hushed, empty stretches of road that seem to hold the memory of passing decades. Residents find their own rhythm in the proximity of Shanker Lake, where the water mirrors the shifting hues of the afternoon, and in the nearby depression of Viney Rough, which catches the runoff of a thousand storms. Life in Bobo moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, indifferent to the frantic pace of the modern world, preferring instead the steady, repetitive cycle of the sun rising over the fields and the long shadows that pull across the porch at dusk.

About This Bobo Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bobo, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.133613, -90.677553. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Bobo includes the ZIP code (38646, 38614), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Quitman County (Marks), and school district assignment (Coahoma County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.